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Making fidgeting cool: Dog Might Games carves wooden d20 spinners
On offer are 20 different wood types, 18 designs and 16 dials that go together to create a forest of different combinations of d20 fidget spinners.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #120
We’re getting 50th-anniversary games, and that’s new paper to buy, but we’re not yet sure whether we will get more D&D 5.0, 5.5 or even 6.0.
The dead have risen: Survival of the Able is a tabletop RPG about people with disabilities trying to survive the zombies
You’ll encounter not just zombies but discrimination in Survival of the Able as your character’s disabilities provoke reactions from people, and through the fear, you might be a zombie.
Star Trek Online deal pushes beyond $75,000 for charity
There are over 100 Star Trek DLC locations in the tiers, which include interactions and voiceovers from actual actors from the sci-fi series.
Joe Manganiello narrates Blackbirds RPG short audiobooks
On YouTube, Joe Manganiello of Deathstroke / Arkhan the Cruel / Alcide Herveaux fame has been helping promote the Kickstarter for the Blackbirds RPG.
Free to Download: Birth of a Jackal
Not all Jackals chose the War Road. Some found that mantle forced upon them by their circumstances. Sometimes, innocent people catch chaos’ eye.
Flabbergasted! shows there’s room for comedy tabletop RPGs
The narrative-driven game is rules-lite and casts PCs in a range of 4 archetypes of British society, from the Aristocrats of the 20s to their staff.
RPGs & Mental Health: A RPG designer on social anxiety
You know, they’re just as nervous as you are… even more so”
Kieron Gillen’s “Goth Jumanji” comic book series Die will get an RPG from Honey Heist creator
A group of broken, desperate people are sucked into a magical fantasy kingdom after playing a roleplaying game and we get to watch them work through their emotional and physical trauma.
